This may be, perhaps, why some of the best Superman comic covers have been those to focus on symbols, icons, and the more religious themes that float around Superman.
Action Comics issue 1004 is a beautiful distillation of these symbols and themes. A smiling, angelic Superman hovers over a flock of migrating geese, almost blending into the canvas of clouds behind him.
Gorgeous, intricately painted, and every bit as symbolic as it is innocently simple, Action Comics issue 1004 gave us a cover that showed that under all those Christ allegories, our boy Clark is still that smiling, friendly kid from small-town Kansas.
